but it's a 3-day weekend!!!!
Well, in my constant sleep-deprived state this week (how is eight hours not enough????) I realize I forgot to share a funny moment from school last week.
I gave a test to my kids on Thursday. In 2nd period, I have this girl who took another boy's pencil case and pencil and eraser away from him and refused to give them back by fake "zoning out" and pretending not to hear him, and then me when I told her to give them back. So he took her pen and something a little bit later and than repeated the zoning out stunt on her. She got irritated and started poking him in the shoulder over and over again. Next thing I know, I hear a "Leave me along you stupid ugly wench" from behind me...
Oh, it gets better.
After I stare over in total shock, I hear a few kids ask "What's a wench?"
and even better...
I say "It's a girl. Shakespeare used it to mean a girl."
"So what's a boy called"
other student: "a Wiccan."
the rest of us: "hunh?"
Apparently he though Boy1 had called Girl a "witch" and boy witches are apparently called "wiccans" after sidestepping that one fairly quickly, I than said wench is a word with certain connotative meanings.
That confused them. So in my stumbling state of recovering, I explain that it's a word that has a real meaning and a slang meaning
Girl1: "like screw?"
Say I " yes girl1, like screw. wench also meant a certain type of girl and I don't want to hear that word used in my classroom again."
The End.
Posted by Anna at September 1, 2006 07:07 PM | TrackBack